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Caesalpinia pulcherrima L.

Synonym                    : Poinciana pulcherrima L.

Sub family                 : Caesalpinioideae

Local Names             :  Dwarf Poinciana, Barbados pride

Flowering and fruiting period: Throughout the year

Distribution: widely planted as ornamental

Habitat: Planted as ornamental

IUCN status: Data Deficient

Endemic: No

Uses: Ornamental

Key Characters: Caesalpinia pulcherrima is a branching shrubs. Leaves bipinnate; pinnae 4-8 pairs; leaflets 6-8 pairs on each pinna, elliptic to obovate, base cuneate, apex rounded. Flowers in terminal corymbose racemes. Calyx outer lobe cucullate, enclosing the flower bud. Petals subequal, commonly flame-red but sometimes yellow. Stamens 10; filaments reddish. Pods obliquely oblong, compressed, short-stipitate, beaked at apex, 8-10-seeded. Seeds, obovate, compressed, black.